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Thursday, December 29, 2011

A Little Slice of Heaven

Today is an important day in internet history. I’m going to share with you my family Nutroll recipe.

Nutroll

This is a recipe that has been handed down generation after generation.

After some discussion, my family decided I could blog about it.

I don’t want to lose your attention, so I’m going to divide this into a few posts. The entire recipe will be shared at the end of the final post - so make sure you read every day.

What is nutroll?

I describe nutroll as sweet bread that tastes like heaven. It also includes some nuts.

Every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas day together my family makes around 18-36 nutroll loaves. My includes my Grandma (boss lady), Grandpa (Leroy Coltrain), Dad (Shady), his wife (Knitmaster), My Aunt (Lola), her hubby (Money Matt), my cousins (B-Dogg and Banana), myself, GB (although he missed it this year), sister (Sly) and her husband (MEW).

Boss Lady

Leroy Coltrain

There are 3 parts to preparing nutroll to bake. You have to make the dough, prepare the filling, and roll the nutroll. Today, I’m focusing on the dough.

Before you attempt to make nutroll for your self - make sure you have the complete recipe and read the entire thing. Many a nutroll has been ruined by not reading the recipe. Make sure you keep reading Kiss My Smash everyday to get the full recipe and guidelines.

Although a distant relative believes we break the rules - we like to use a stand mixer for the dough and grinding the nuts. I’d recommend it.

The first instruction within my family’s recipe: Grandma is always the boss. If you don’t follow this rule, you are destined to fail.

I was so happy when the most experienced cooks and bakers (the wonderful women in my family) still spill things in the kitchen. Maybe there is hope for me after all.)

Start mixer on low speed, slowly add milk mixture, then beaten eggs.

Continue beating adding flour until dough starts coming up on beater.

Boss Lady's dog Tess was a big helper that day.

Change to dough hook and continue adding flour until dough comes up on top of dough hook.

Place dough on counter top and knead in flour until no longer sticky.

Place dough in Pam sprayed bowl, then cover with plastic wrap.

Put in warm place until doubles in size, should take about 1 hour.

Phew! That’s a lot and we’re just beginning. Trust me - you’re going to want to ride this out with me. This is some amazing bread. I brought 3 loaves home with me and GB ate 2 of those loaves within 5 days. I froze the last loaf to stop him and save some for myself. (Nutroll can be frozen and consumed months later.)

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